District Attorney Says Andrew Brown Jr. Hit Police With Car Before Officer-Involved Shooting

District Attorney Says Andrew Brown Jr. Hit Police With Car Before Officer-Involved Shooting
Andrew Brown Jr.'s son Khalil Ferebee, speaks outside the Pasquotank County Public Safety building in Elizabeth City, N.C. on April 26, 2021. Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP
Jack Phillips
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A North Carolina district attorney said Wednesday that Andrew Brown Jr.’s car hit deputies before they fired shots at him, killing him, in the latest officer-involved shooting that is drawing the ire of Black Lives Matter activists.

District Attorney Andrew Womble told a judge at a hearing that he viewed body camera footage of the incident and disagreed with how lawyers for Brown’s family described his death. The lawyers had claimed that Brown’s car was stationary when officers fired.
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